This resource is a companion site to a documentary about a major flooding of the Mississippi River in 1927, where in Greenville, Mississippi, efforts to contain the river pitted the majority black population against an aristocratic plantation family. Included is information about the Ku Klux Klan at the time and African American migration to the North.

Concepts

african americans

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Additional Tags

black share croppers, racial unrest, white planters, african american migration, ku klux klan, mississippi river, migration to the north

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)